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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this red flag warning at Feb 6, 2017, 2:43 AM CST for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Feb 6, 2017, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2017, 2:43 AM CST (08:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2017, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2017, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Clark County, KS, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2002 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
342 WWUS83 KDDC 060843 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 243 AM CST MON FEB 6 2017 KSZ061-062-074>076-084>088-070100- /O.NEW.KDDC.FW.W.0001.170206T1800Z-170207T0100Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- CLARK- 243 AM CST MON FEB 6 2017 /143 AM MST MON FEB 6 2017/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON CST /11 AM MST/ TODAY TO 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 061...062...074...075...076... 084...085...086...087 AND 088... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON CST /11 AM MST/ TODAY TO 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 HAMILTON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 KEARNY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 GRANT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 076 HASKELL... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 SEWARD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 088 CLARK. * WINDS...WEST 15-25 MPH, WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT START WILL HAVE EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT ADVISED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ TURNER FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
1 follow-up statement
225 WWUS83 KDDC 061725 RFWDDC URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1125 AM CST MON FEB 6 2017 KSZ061-062-074>076-084>088-070100- /O.CON.KDDC.FW.W.0001.170206T1800Z-170207T0100Z/ HAMILTON-KEARNY-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE- CLARK- 1125 AM CST MON FEB 6 2017 /1025 AM MST MON FEB 6 2017/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 061...062...074...075...076...084...085...086...087 AND 088... * AFFECTED AREA...IN KANSAS...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 061 HAMILTON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 062 KEARNY...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 074 STANTON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 075 GRANT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 076 HASKELL... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 MORTON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 STEVENS... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 086 SEWARD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 087 MEADE AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 088 CLARK. * WINDS...WEST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT START WILL HAVE EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR AND SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT ADVISED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 10:14 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 20 more | 13 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.